Talk:GRASS (programming language)

Grass ported to other platforms??

"The last version of GRASS was RT/1, a port of GRASS to other platforms that divorced the language from the display model and allowed it to be ported to other platforms. Versions existed for DOS, Windows, SGI platform using OpenGL, HP-UX, AIX, Macintosh and Amiga."

Where did this information come from? I've tired myself out looking for ports of grass/Zgrass to other platforms with zero results. The only information I've found about a port is this Wikipedia page, or other sources that simply link to this page.

• @76.108.128.204: I don't know if you'll get this ping, but fingers crossed. I don't recall the original page where I found the information on RT/1, but there are a number of mentions in places like this, this and this. Some of these mentions the port to the Mac and PC. Maury Markowitz (talk) 00:48, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

Development OS and language?

Does anyone know what OS and language were used for the original development? Only the hardware is mentioned. The citation for that (DeFanti 1980, Byte magazine) intimates on page 100 that the OS was Bell Labs UNIX, but no language was mentioned (but the name FORTRAN was bandied about) BMJ-pdx (talk) 17:36, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

PDP-11 assembly. Tom's dissertation says "one of the unconventional aspects of the Graphics Symbiosis System when compared to other graphics efforts, is its assembler implementation". Followed by a few pages discussing why implementing it in FORTRAN was not feasible. I don't see any mention of the operating system; could have been UNIX, but something like RSX-11 is also possible. It would've needed to support the devices that were part of the original system configuration: Vector General 3D display, Scientific Accessories Corp 3-D Graf-Pen, and controls for an Arriflex 16mm camera. --dave pape (talk) 21:17, 18 March 2025 (UTC)